bpa;139672 Wrote: 
> AlienBBC uses mplayer to do RealAudio decoding. The RealAudio codec as
> implemented needs Floating point support.  
> 
> As an example - a 266MHZ PPC processor with FPU (such as in QNAP,
> DS-106, Linkstation HG)  can handle decoding needing only about 10-15%
> CPU.  A 266Mhz ARM processor (as in NSLU2) no FPU - the
> compiler/libraries provides floating point emulation - the ARM
> processor cannot decode a stream in real time.
> 
> Real have implemented a fixed point decoder for RealAudio on ARM
> processors and it works.  
> 
> I don't know what processor is in the Infrant box but I presume it
> doesn't have an FPU.

Thanks for the explanation - I always wondered what the problem was.


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